Targets

Anita, you should now use the blog checklist to get up to speed with the remaining tasks.

Research into Similar Texts

Your analysis of the effects of presentational devices in conveying genre, key messages and targeting an audience clearly demostrates insight and a sound understanding of the text. Good stuff. You must now include your analysis of contents pages and a main article.

Audience Research

You have included a detailed analysis of your audience questionnaires and explained how this research will inform your production - well done Anita.

Planning

Anita, you have included some very good evidence of work in progress and some evidence of your early planning work. You should now include your first brainstorm and diary styled accounts of the decisions made by you and your group.

CREATING THE MASTHEAD:

In order to create the masthead, I first have to choose the typography that the name of the magazine should be in.




Here, I have created a range of fonts with the name smooth to help me decide what typography I should use for my masthead. I have decided to use the font second down to the left-hand side as I feel it connotes the word "Smooth" the best. Alongside this, I will be using the gradient effect that I used on one of the fonts to create the masthead.

FIRST MASTHEAD ATTEMPT:


This was the outcome of my first attempt of making the masthead. This won't be used as a masthead on the magazine as I don't feel it relates to Soul mainly becuase of the typography is too bold and instead the name of the magazine will be written in one capital letter and the rest in lower case. Also the colour of the typography doesn't suit the soul genre therefore I will be changing the colour and the effects. I will be keeping the box around the typography as it makes the masthead stand out but instead of making it black and purple I will be changing it to just black.








Here I have tested different colours against a black background to see what colour compliments the black background but also connotes soul. In the end I decided to use the colour and effect of the 4th masthead design.

Here I am starting to finalize the masthead. I like everything that I have changed all I wants to do is swap the effect used on the puff with the masthead as I feel the masthead needs to stand out more than the puff as it is the name of the magzine.


FINAL MASTHEAD:

PLAN FOR FRONT COVER:

In this plan I have encorporated things that are generic of a mucic magazine such as a masthead(Smooth) and a puff (Love Soul. Love Smooth). Also, I have coverlines of exclusive interviews with other artist. This will attract my audience as they will feel they can only read these interviews in only "Smooth Magazine" and no other through the word "Exclusive". I have made the price of my magazine

£3.50 because of the results of my questionnaire. Moreover, I have made my main coverline about an interview with an upcoming artist as most people from the questionnaire said that they like to read about upcoming artist and interviews therefore I have combined both together.

Here I have recorded a selection of people I have interviewed to give an insight of what a music magazine should include in the opinion of the audience.